#col potter

[hawkeyes-boy]

just col. potter comforting hawk in c*a*v*e when he was claustrophobic <3

[tuttle-did-it]

I also had a problem with it, cos will admit Ezri never grew on me. This is not Nicole de Boer’s fault- she played the character as written.

but I think it was a mistake to make her a Dax.

their excuse reason that Jadzia and Lenara could not be together was that Trills are not supposed to just pick up and live the life of the old host, but live their own life with a new partner, new job, new circumstances.

then they bring Ezri right back to DS9 to replace Dax. so obviously that excuse to keep Jadzia away from her wife was rubbish. I, like Worf, was not over losing Jadzia. Having a sudden replacement that’s was her but wasn’t her was very upsetting. And since this version of Dax was afraid of everything, and hugely insecure, it made it easier to compare and prefer Jadzia’s vibrancy and confidence over Ezri.

I know what they were trying to do- M*A*S*H discovered that of your going to replace a character, you bring in their opposite so the two of them could not be compared. Frank Burns replaced with Charles Winchester III. Potter replacing Henry. BJ replacing Trapper. All completely the opposite of the person who was there so comparing them was apple and oranges.

and they started out, right- Ezri was 180* from Jadzia. The problem was, by making her a Dax, she suddenly is Jadzia’s replacement. And Jadzia was a hard act to follow. So Ezra’s nervousness, her unprofessionalism, her insecurity- instead of character traits to grow on, these were just reasons too miss Jadzia more. No longer apples and oranges, just Dax and a less better version of Dax.

this is not Nicole’s fault. She played Ezri exactly as instructed, she played her well. She did exactly what was on the page. But part of me never forgave Ezri for not being Jadzia.

They should have never made her a Dax. Because I never got to appreciate Ezri, I was just constantly reminded that she was not Jadzia.

So when she failed to help Garak, I wasn’t like ‘aww poor baby worm is struggling. How endearing. She will grow and learn,’ it was just ‘she’s not competent. This is inexcusable. She shouldn’t be here. She’s not good enough to be on this crew. She’s a shadow of who Jadzia Dax was.’

it was unfair to the audience, because it made it harder to appreciate her character. It was unfair to the DS9 characters like Worf and Sisko (but all of them, really) because she’s not Dax but they have to accept her anyway, even though she wasn’t doing a good job helping people like Garak. And poor Garak is on his own cos here’s this baby worm terrified of her own shadow, how can she possibly help him? And, it was unfair to Nicole, who was doing a very good job with what she had.

And it proved that the whole ‘trills have to live a different lifetime’ bs excuse to keep Jadzia out of a lesbian relationship with her former wife Lenara was, as predicted, a bs excuse.

basically, what I’m saying is, the writers lost my trust over Jadzia/Ezri in season 7 and never got it back.

Afterimage is one of my favorite DS9 episodes ever and, in my opinion, the most underrated episode featuring Garak. But I have A LOT of problems with it, and they can pretty much be summed up by this reply to someone’s post on the episode. I screenshotted this because I don't want to derail that person's post more than I have already whoops.

But I have a lot of thoughts so here's a rant! below the read more, please mind content warnings for discussions of abuse, substance use, and suicide.

[also, @ettaberrytea , please let me know if you want me to remove the screenshot]

The promotion thing I can live with because it seemed like an inevitable part of her remaining on the station. That seemed like the only likely conclusion of her character for this episode even on my first watch.

But Garak's anxiety and claustrophobia being 'fixed' at the end actually upsets me. There's the obvious 'it's not that easy!'. But also, she did not provide any kind of actual therapeutic technique that would help him here. Which I KNOW is nitpicking but I think given the context, less so.

The big problem for me is a bit more complicated. It's obviously not just 'He doesn't like small spaces'. Even with Afterimage having the most explicit mentions of this part of Tain's abuse, the focus is on claustrophobia. And it just really irks me how Ezri presses him and presses him about it and doesn't try to delve into what seems to be a huge reason behind it. That is, besides 'you blame yourself for this just like how I blame myself for getting space sick', which... I'm gonna be honest felt like a really unfair comparison.

To me, a lot of this doesn't feel on purpose/like she's supposed to be learning still. I will say that her delivery in this reminds me so much of myself in social work classes! I've been there! But especially as the episode continues, it feels more and more like this is supposed to be a huge breakthrough and she's cracked the code and this all makes sense psychologically.

Also, that scene with Garak trying to open the airlock just. Hurts so, so bad for me. It's one of my favorite moments of Garak's character and it hits me really hard.

But the fact that the scene after it is a nice little 'sitting in the holosuite' scene staring at the sunset off a cliff... I just kinda hate that! But I really liked their conversation and Garak saying that it's not really such a large space and none of it is real -- that's one of my favorite moments in Afterimage, actually.

Also I have to say this somewhere, and this is absolutely based on my interpretation only. But that airlock scene felt like Garak being the most explicitly close to suicide we've seen since The Wire. To have him just sitting in a holosuite [on a cliffside no less] isn't a great followup to that, even setting aside my interpretation. And to kinda respond to the reply I screenshotted above, I feel like it's not such a stretch that he relapsed.

I think Ezri is a great character and like I said, this is one of my favorite DS9 episodes! But I've never talked about this in detail and wanted to put it out there.

Reminder that this is just my opinion, and if you have a different take on this episode, I'd love to hear it!

[icomefromthemountains]

When I’m normal enough to type out context I’ll do that but for now LOOK AT WHAT IVE PURCHASED FOR $22

[somedudenamedanthony]

Made aorts again

[zeawesomebirdie]

As if i didnt have enough knitting projects planned for after top surgery, ive decided im going to try to find a good pattern for the grey blue cardigan that Hawkeye wears in season 7

[mashtism]

the fact harry morgan went from playing gen steele, a full g.i., stubborn as a mule, yelling at radar for answering a question he asked to playing our lovable, western faring, all-around dad col. potter is one of my favorite things ever

[grassfire]

the MASH renaissance on my dash at the moment is surfacing some deep memories for me. i gotta go back.

[capaldiera]

little bit grumpy about how unslay all of mulcahy and klinger's interactions got after like s3

[captainjimothycarter]

Do you think Col. Phillips was a horse guy? 🐴🐎

I have no idea why this is so funny to me but it is.

I absolutely love this ask because yes, yes, I fully believe that he is a horse guy. I fully believe that he falls in love with horses and it's the only rare time that anyone has seen him smile around them.

After the war, he retires to a ranch. No one can prove me wrong.

[ds9-polycule-tales]

Taped off the TV, with the first ten minutes missing and vintage ads for products that no longer existed.

I didn’t know what the opening of The Flight of Dragons was until I finally caught the whole film on Cartoon Network when I was like 25.

[hawkeyes-boy]

he LOVES his BOY

[zeawesomebirdie]

Me, getting my media recommendations from MASH again? It's more likely than you think!

[jax-winchester]

“Henry Blake was incompetent” Henry Blake was human and a great surgeon. He loved his kids, his wife, fishing, he loved Hawkeye, Trapper, Klinger, Radar, Mulcahey, he loved being a doctor. Just because he wasn’t walking military propaganda like Col. Potter doesn’t mean he was incompetent. Henry trusted everyone to make the good moral decision. They always did, and I happen to think he was a good, fair leader.

[zorciarkrildrush]

Look alive because every single time you'll be mean to yourself Col. Sherman Potter will materialize to call what you think horse hockey and other such sayings

[usaac-official]

Aircrew #1 poses for a photo on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8) before the Doolittle Raid.

2nd Lt. Henry A. "Hank" Potter, navigator; Lt. Col. James "Jimmy" Harold Doolittle, pilot; SSgt. Fred Anthony Braemer, bombardier; 2nd Lt. Richard E. Cole, co-pilot; SSgt. Paul John Leonard, engineer/gunner.

[mashhistorian]

On this day, 41 years ago, the M*A*S*H spin-off series AfterMASH debuted on CBS! The hour-long pilot episode followed Col. Potter, Father Mulcahy, Klinger, and Soon-Lee after they returned to the United States from Korea. By the end of the episode, they were reunited in Missouri at a veterans’ hospital.